The work of one life across many domains

What I do, in most rooms, is notice the thing a system can't see about itself and try to name it clearly enough that the people it affects can see it too. That habit shows up everywhere — security, philosophy, economics, law — which is why my résumé looks scattered and my actual interests really don't.

I served in the U.S. Air Force as a Fusion Analyst from 2007 to 2012, pulling signal from a dozen disconnected sources at once. I didn't know it at the time, but that was the job that taught me how I think: across lanes, not down one.

Since then I've worked in threat intelligence at Microsoft and Qualys, published original cybersecurity research, and written three books on ethics, addiction, and relational healing. I hold a CISSP and an MBA. I'm in law school now because I watched a system fail to hold itself accountable and wanted to learn its language well enough to push back.

None of it started with the analysis, though. Long before any framework, I was drawing and writing poems — that came first, and everything else grew out of it. The problems I keep returning to — institutional failure, human coherence, the gap between how things describe themselves and how they actually work — don't sit inside one discipline. They live in the seams between them, which is, for better or worse, where I've always felt most at home.